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How to Blow Sugar Bubbles

During the summer months, some children enjoy passing the time blowing bubbles. If this sounds like your children, you may need to purchase quite a few bottles of bubble soap to keep them occupied. Buying bottle after bottle of soap tends to get pricey, so you may want to consider sugar bubbles instead. A combination of liquid detergent, cooking oil, water and a few tablespoons of sugar to thicken the mix, sugar bubbles and an ordinary drinking straw will have you and your kids blowing the biggest bubbles ever.

Things You'll Need

Empty milk jug with cap
1/4 cup liquid laundry detergent
9 tbsp. cooking oil
1 3/4 cups water
2 1/2 tsp. granulated sugar
Shallow bowl or cake tin
Drinking straws

Instructions

- 1
  Rinse the milk jug thoroughly and add the liquid laundry detergent, cooking oil, water and granulated sugar to the jug. Place the cap on the milk jug.
- 2
  Shake the milk jug well until all of the sugar dissolves in the liquid.
- 3
  Pour some of the sugar bubble solution into a shallow bowl or cake tin.
- 4
  Hold one end of a drinking straw while dipping the other end into the sugar bubble solution.
- 5
  Place the end of the drinking straw that does not contain the sugar bubbles into your mouth. Blow into the straw, gently. Bubbles will form at the end of the straw, drifting off into the atmosphere one by one.

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